Grits, Beans and Greens: The Lost Fontana Studio Session 1969

'GRITS, BEANS AND GREENS: THE LOST FONTANA STUDIO SESSIONS 1969' - a previously unissued studio album recorded by the iconic British jazz saxophonist Tubby Hayes in 1969.Thought to be either lost or destroyed until their recent rediscovery, the sessions are being hailed as among the very best work in the Hayes discography. “Sometimes when tapes than have been lost or rumoured to exist finally surface there is a touch of anti-climax or the need to 'spin' them in a way that makes them more important than they are” explains Hayes' biographer and award-winning British jazz saxophonist Simon Spillett. “These sessions, on the other hand, are absolute classics in every regard. It's an album that can sit equally alongside the best Coltrane, Rollins or Dexter Gordon LPs. It really is a lost masterpiece, make no mistake.”These recordings have been lovingly remastered at Gearbox Records’ Studios, London, directly from the original tapes using a Studer C37 ¼-inch stereo tape machine. They were then equalised through an all-valve mastering desk built bespoke for Decca studios in the late 1950s, Vintage Lang Pultec EQ, Prism Maselec EQ and Telefunken U73b valve limiters from 1959. For the vinyl formats, the LP lacquers were cut on a beautifully restored Haeco Scully Lathe from 1967 with Westrex (Western Electric) head and cutting amps: the same go-to lathe that Rudy Van Gelder used”.

1: For Members Only (Take 2)
2: Grit, Beans and Greens (Take 4)
3: Rumpus (Take 1)
4: You Know I Care (Take 2)
5: Where Am I Going? (Take 3)

Number of Discs: 1

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